Photos from the 2009 INSNA “Sunbelt” Conference in San Diego

Carter Butts delivered a talk about “simple things” that govern the structure of social networks like the limited number of configurations networks can take when the number of nodes is lower than, say, 15.

Phil Bonacich also delivered a keynote address which focused on the role of power in social relationships and the ways that network configurations confer more or less power on particular locations within the network. People with choices among their interaction partners are able to resist exploitation better than those with few or no choices.